33 Facts About Joanna Kulig

Joanna Kulig is the recipient of a European Film Award and two Polish Film Awards, and her work has been recognised at various film festivals.

Joanna Kulig began performing on stage while still in drama school, debuting in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Joanna Kulig's first starring film role in the 2007 drama Wednesday, Thursday Morning won her the award for Best Debut at the Gdynia Film Festival.

Joanna Kulig received further acclaim for her performance in the 2011 film Elles, which earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Film Awards and Gdynia Film Festival.

Joanna Kulig appeared in three of his films: The Woman in the Fifth, the Academy Award-winning Ida and Cold War.

Joanna Kulig's starring role in the lattermost earned her widespread recognition and Best Actress accolades at the European Film Awards and Polish Film Awards.

Joanna Kulig was born on 24 June 1982 in Krynica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

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Joanna Kulig's mother worked as a cook at a local kindergarten and her father was a folk poet.

Joanna Kulig performed at weddings and dance parties with her siblings.

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Joanna Kulig completed a Vocational Technical High School for Hotel Administration in Krakow a year earlier.

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Joanna Kulig applied twice to study jazz at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, but was rejected on both occasions.

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Joanna Kulig explained: "no one wanted me, so I went to university to do drama and singing," which started her acting career.

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Joanna Kulig was the first in her family to graduate from a university.

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In 1998, Joanna Kulig won an episode of the Polish television talent show A Chance for Success by performing Grzegorz Turnau's song "Miedzy cisza a cisza".

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Joanna Kulig participated in season two of the Polish television talent show Idol in 2002.

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Joanna Kulig followed this with the titular role in the 2008 television play Doktor Halina.

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Joanna Kulig later admitted that seeing herself in the play on television convinced her to return to acting as she quit briefly.

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Joanna Kulig won Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Academy Awards and Gdynia Film Festival.

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Joanna Kulig starred in the 2011 Polish comedies: Los numeros, Million Dollars and Dance Marathon.

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Joanna Kulig earned a Golden Duck nomination for Best Actress for her performances in the last two.

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Joanna Kulig received her second Polish Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Jacek Borcuch's drama Lasting, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "fine-tuned on every level".

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In 2014, Joanna Kulig was cast in a leading role on the Polish sitcom O mnie sie nie martw, starring as Iga in its first nine seasons until 2018.

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Joanna Kulig next starred in the romantic comedies Sophie Seeks Seven and Warsaw by Night, and in the commercially successful films Disco Polo and Pitbull: Tough Women.

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In Pitbull: Tough Women, Poland's highest-grossing film of 2016 and the seventh highest-grossing Polish film of all time, Joanna Kulig played a policewoman Zuza.

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Joanna Kulig was drawn to the role as it required her to sing and dance, allowing her to showcase her talents; she trained with a folk group for half a year in preparation for the part.